FirstPost was founded in the UK by two ex-Plymouth University students after losing patience with the state of the job-search industry. This is our story, who we are, and what we do differently.
If you've spent any time job-hunting on the major aggregators in the last few years, you know the experience has gotten worse, not better. We did. And eventually we got tired of it.
Some of the patterns that pushed us over the edge:
Job seekers are stressed, vulnerable, and time-poor. The industry that's supposed to help them was instead farming them for ad inventory and contact-data resale. That gap is what FirstPost exists to close.
We took a deliberately narrow approach. FirstPost monitors company career pages directly - the same source that aggregators eventually crawl - and delivers a personalised daily digest of new openings filtered to your CV, your target companies, and your exact preferences.
If that sounds simple - it is. The hard part isn't conceptual; it's the engineering work to monitor tens of thousands of company career pages, parse hundreds of slightly-different applicant tracking systems, and consolidate the feed into a clean digest. That's what FirstPost has been building since April 2026.
FirstPost was founded in April 2026 by Omar A. and Ben D., who first met as students at Plymouth University. The company is registered and operated in the UK; both founders had first-hand experience of the problems above - which is how the project started in the first place.
Both founders work across business and product; Omar handles all of the engineering, and Ben leads marketing. It's a two-person team by design - small enough to ship quickly, respond to user feedback personally, and make decisions without committee. If you email hello@firstpost.io, one of us reads it.
Omar's path into tech wasn't direct. He read Financial Economics as an undergraduate before completing a Masters in Finance at Cardiff University, then worked briefly in management consultancy in London before pivoting into the tech industry. He's spent the years since working his way up - Helpdesk Analyst, then Systems Administrator, and most recently Cloud Engineer - and now handles the entire engineering side of FirstPost: the scrapers, the API, the data pipeline, the dashboard, and the cloud infrastructure that ties it together. You can find him on LinkedIn.
Ben leads marketing and the business side at FirstPost. He prefers to keep his professional profile private but is reachable via the shared hello@firstpost.io address.
A few principles that drive how FirstPost is built:
For anything - product feedback, partnership questions, journalism enquiries, support, or just to say hello - email us at hello@firstpost.io or use the contact form. Pro subscribers get a 24-hour response window; we respond to everyone within 72 hours.
FirstPost is operated as a sole trader registered in the United Kingdom. For data-protection enquiries, see our Privacy Policy or email privacy@firstpost.io.
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